Sunday, January 06, 2013

Learning Telugu tough task in other states




Learning Telugu tough task in other states


Telugu education in the neighbouring States is pursued with many hassles. Telugu, as language, which is lifeline of any community, is facing all-pervading problems.

The government of Odisha closed B.Ed (Telugu Medium) colleges in Parlakimidi and Berhampur two decades ago triggering a scarcity of trained Telugu teachers and it had adverse affect on the Telugu medium schools in Odisha.

Telugu medium schools and colleges being run by Tamil Nadu government have not been able to provide question papers in Telugu medium.
Karnataka government has not been filling the vacancies of Telugu teacher posts for long.

These are a few problems being faced by Telugu people outside of Andhra Pradesh. Despite large numbers of Telugu medium schools in South Odisha, Odisha government is not supplying Telugu Language books and not filling up many vacant posts of Telugu teachers in Parlakimidi, Rayagada, Jaipur, Chandrapur, Berhampur, Attaveera and Sambalpur areas.

The Joint House committee on Education and cultural needs of Telugu people residing in other states, which has taken note of the problems recommended steps for filling up the vacant posts in the Telugu medium school.

According to 1986 MoU of both the education ministers, the Odisha government should appoint deputy inspector of schools to look after Telugu medium schools in Odisha. But, it was not done.

There were five government Telugu Medium schools in Cuttack town catering to the needs of Telugu students for the past two decades. Because of scarcity of Telugu teachers those schools were also closed by the local government.

Though 75,000 Telugu People residing in Puri town, there is no Telugu medium school and the government of Odisha was turning deaf ear. The education ministers of two states met on June 21, 1986 at Vizag and signed an agreement on education problems. Oriya government prevailed on AP for the sake of its people in AP, but AP is yet to relent to start D.Ed college in Oriya medium at Tekkali and Mandasa town.

Karnataka

There were more Telugu people in Bellary, Raichur, Bangalore, Kolar and Bedar districts. Karnataka was expected to set up more Telugu schools according to their needs.

Karnataka appointed Kannada head masters in Telugu medium schools. But the Telugu community is not getting desired level of support from them. A good number of Telugu libraries being run by local people, but big want of Telugu books.

Tamil Nadu

Chennai Door Darshan Channel-2 used to telecast Telugu programs for Telugus residing in Tamil Nadu; but they were stopped now. Tamil Nadu government sanctioned fellowships to its students residing outside the state and AP is requested to follow the cue. According to minority act, teacher and student ratio should be 1:15 but Tamil Nadu deterrent in filling up vacant Telugu teacher posts in various institutions. There is a Telugu medium in Plus two and Degree Colleges in Chennai and Krishnagiri districts. But, there were no Telugu text books for Telugu medium students.

Though Telugu was the third language in public exams, TN officials are not showing Telugu marks in cumulating total. Ironically, Tamil head masters are being appointed in Telugu medium schools. Telugu medium students are not deprived of text books for DEd and B.Ed, they are not provided with question papers in their mother tongue.

In fact, Tamil Nadu declared Telugu as a second language in thirteen border talukas in 1992. But, this is not being implemented.
Efforts are being made to address the problems of Telugu students in Karnataka, Odisha and Tamil Nadu in the upcoming Fourth World Telugu Conference to be held from December 27 to 29, 2012 in Tirupathi.

Joint House Committee Report

According to the report of the committee, there were many vacancies Telugu teacher posts in outside the state. It is preventing Telugu students from joining Telugu medium schools. Hence, the committee recommended to depute Telugu teachers from border districts concerned to respective states.

The joint house committee visited three states and recommended to appoint a deputy director in minority cell to look after and pursue the problems. The officials of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Odisha states consented to committee on translating some of classical works in to various sister languages. The committee recommended supplying Telugu text books to the libraries outside AP, run by Telugus.

To Improve Speaking Skills
As an english teacher one question always raked my brains that is when a person from one state ,for example andhra pradesh stays in kerala for 2 years he could easily communicate in malayalam, of course he may not know how to read and write unless he learns the script, then why the students of telugu medium background even though they have english as a subject from 3 rd garde and wrote many exams and finish their schooling with more marks find it difficult to communicate in english? For the past few years i have been instructing english in various engineering colleges in and around hyderabad. Here most of the students have their education in government schools where the medium of instruction is telugu and has telugu medium background upto their 10th class. Here most of the students find it difficult to communicate in english. The objective of this article is to proclaim what might be the reasons for the poor level of communication skills among the students and what methodologies one can follow to improve their ignored language skills like listening and speaking. Some of my observations of the colomnist for the poor level of communication skills among the students follows below..... 1) Lack of proper guidance: students are focussing on improving their communication skills after their graduation only when they were getting rejected by employers. So it is better from the school level to improve their spoken skills. 2) In most of the schools in andhra paradesh from the lower classes out of the 4 basic skills of english language only 2 skills reading and writing are given importance and listening and speaking are neglected. 3) Lack of exposure to formal environments is another cause of the above problem. In some schools, guidance is available but the students do not get proper opportunities for exposing themselves to public speech in English or even in Telugu. It is applicable to a great extent in some colleges 4) Another cause is the family background of the students,...

Speaking Skills

Speaking is considered as the most important skill of the learner, most of the time the proficiency of this skill is which judges the knowledge of the learner of the second language.   People have to many reasons to improve their ability of the skill such as expressing ideas, creating relationships, exchanging information etc. Even though, the development of this skill is not an easy task for anybody, there are many aspects that have to be taken into account in the learning process, the learner must be active and dynamic practicing and exchanging patterns   that are important in the development of the skill, during the process the learner must be expose to a natural environment and natural speeches of the target langauge that enable them to develop their awarness of conversational features and strategies, so the task for the teacher is to incorporate real communication in the classroom promoting interactive and realistic activities in order to help students gain confidence and feel motivated, even though despite its importance, for many years, teaching speaking has been undervalued and English language teachers have continued to teach speaking just as a repetition of drills or memorization of dialogues. Fortunately, today's world requires that the goal of teaching speaking should improve students' communicative skills, because, only in that way, students can express themselves and learn how to follow the social and cultural rules appropriate in each communicative circumstance.

There is no doubt that students learn to speak in the second language by interacting. Today there are many methodologies that can help efficiency for this aim.   One of them can be the communicative approach that is based on real-life situations that require communication. By using this method in ESL classes, students will have the opportunity of communicating with each other in the target language.   ESL teachers should create a classroom environment where students have real-life..



 




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